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Loggerhead Marinelife Center named 'Best Free Attraction' by 'USA Today'
August 6, 2023
The beloved sea turtle research, rehabilitation, education and conservation facility in Juno Beach already has earned its share of kudos as one of the state's...
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Palm Beach Cares Facebook group welcomes posts by local charities
June 20, 2023
Extraordinary Charities, a nonprofit that provides facilities and resources to nearly two dozen local charities, has launched the Palm Beach Cares Facebook group. focused on...
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Dayflowers and Spiderworts
July 26, 2015
  The Spiderwort Family, Commelinaceae (com-ah-lynn-ACE-ee-ee) combines the world’s most ephermal flowers with the world’s toughest foliage. These plants share the common features of having...
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Zinnias Like It Hot
June 22, 2015
Zinnias can take the heat.  Behind my house is a big old flower pot that used to be in the front yard. It fractured, maybe...
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Fukien Tea
May 30, 2015
Carmona microphylla (Ehretia buxifolia) Boraginaceae Walking in downtown Miami yesterday, my eye was drawn to a particularly fine-looking, uniform, sharply clipped hedge. So I sauntered...
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Frankincense, Myrrh, and Gumbo Limbo?
May 19, 2015
Way back, in biblical times and that long again ago, frankincense was a gift to treasure. Used as an incense, stimulating chewing gum, and in...
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Venus Fly Trap
May 8, 2015
  Just for the fun of it I have a Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) on the back porch. Back in the winter months on...
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Betel Vine
April 27, 2015
Piper betle Piperaceae The pepper family is a family of medicinal-ornamental cultivated novelties: baquina, black pepper, kava- kava, peperomias, and today’s highlight, betel leaf. Don’t...
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Friends of MacArthur Beach State Park in running for $1,000 prize
April 6, 2014
Downtown at the Gardens celebrated the Spring season April 5 with a topiary-decorating contest by members of the media. Proceeds from the top three winning...
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Abacoa Community Garden Meet Up
November 12, 2011
Abacoa Community Garden's once a month meet-up to tend the "all for one, one for all" Sharing Garden is coming up Saturday, Nov. 19 at...
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